Examining “Sustainable” Livestock Intensification and Financing: A Critical Analysis of the Hacienda San José Case in Colombia
To tackle the climate crisis adequately, it is important that climate finance flows massively to initiatives that have real positive effects in terms of climate change mitigation and that have no negative effects on people and the environment. Can large-scale but so-called sustainable livestock initiatives stand this double test? Initial findings from field research of a large-scale livestock project in Colombia indicates that the risk of negative effects on people is significant.
